Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovers Horny New Dinosaur in His Backyard
Meet Spiclypeus shipporum, a new Triceratops-like dinosaur that was just discovered by an amateur fossil-hunter in his own backyard. The bones—consisting of an almost complete half skull, legs, hips, and backbones—were initially discovered by Bill Shipp, a nuclear physicist who hunts fossils as a hobby, on his tract of land in Montana in 2005. After…
